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id	challengeType	title	forumTopicId
5900f5221000cf542c510033	5	Problem 436: Unfair wager	302107

Description

Julie proposes the following wager to her sister Louise. She suggests they play a game of chance to determine who will wash the dishes. For this game, they shall use a generator of independent random numbers uniformly distributed between 0 and 1. The game starts with S = 0. The first player, Louise, adds to S different random numbers from the generator until S > 1 and records her last random number 'x'. The second player, Julie, continues adding to S different random numbers from the generator until S > 2 and records her last random number 'y'. The player with the highest number wins and the loser washes the dishes, i.e. if y > x the second player wins.

For example, if the first player draws 0.62 and 0.44, the first player turn ends since 0.62+0.44 > 1 and x = 0.44. If the second players draws 0.1, 0.27 and 0.91, the second player turn ends since 0.62+0.44+0.1+0.27+0.91 > 2 and y = 0.91. Since y > x, the second player wins.

Louise thinks about it for a second, and objects: "That's not fair". What is the probability that the second player wins? Give your answer rounded to 10 places behind the decimal point in the form 0.abcdefghij

Instructions

Tests

tests:
  - text: <code>euler436()</code> should return 0.5276662759.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(euler436(), 0.5276662759);

Challenge Seed

function euler436() {
  // Good luck!
  return true;
}

euler436();

Solution

// solution required

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